· Great Falls Tribune · By Julie Pace · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
The Associated Press reports on President Barack Obama's 2014 executive actions offering temporary deportation protection and work permits to many parents of U.S. citizens and expanding DACA. Shahid Haque said the policy could protect hundreds of Montanans from separation, while emphasizing that millions of people would remain outside its reach and Congress still had not enacted lasting reform.
For the firm, the announcement had immediate consequences: families Shahid had advised for years suddenly had a possible temporary protection that had not existed under the statute.